M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

Fanlo (Chicken Man) Mkhize

Traffic signs and bird, 1993

Installation, variable dimensions .

©image: M HKA

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BRbart).

Fanozi “Chickenman” Mkhize was born in 1959 in KwaZulu-Natal, South-Africa. His artistic career started on the fields outside the Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg, the capital city of KwaZulu-Natal. There, he made a mixture of sculptures, traffic signs and paintings, that, by his own account, reflects the situations of his direct environment. Apart from recycling found objects and materials, such as iron wires, dolls or goat skin, the presence of words in his work also attracts attention. Although his work can be seen as politically and socially oriented, Mkhize didn’t pay that much attention to the message itself, rather to the way in which the letters were put. The texts often consist of copied words and sentences with random spacing. Consequently, the message is less readable at first sight and so the audience is forced to take a closer look.

The work Traffic signs and birds is a direct translation of a dream he had as a child: he saw a meticulous sequence of traffic signs and animals on the concrete before him. In that dream he had the idea, he had made that constellation himself, and so the work came into being from the urge to recreate the image he saw.  

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Fanlo (Chicken Man) Mkhize.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: The collection III – Spring 2003, with Interventions by Gert Robijns, Wilhelm Sasnal & Bojan Fajfric. MuHKA, Antwerpen, 22 February 2003 - 18 May 2003.

> Exhibition: The Collection. M HKA, Antwerpen, 28 April 2017 - 31 December 2021.

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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.

> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.